Qanemciput Piliaput-llu: Our Stories & the Things We Made
An interview-based interdisciplinary performance event bringing together over 100 participating community members from across southwest Alaska. Young people from 13 Alaska Native Yup’ik villages perform puppetry, digital stories, and traditional dance to tell their own “new” traditional stories. Directed, facilitated, and curated by lead teaching artist Ryan Conarro.
Qanemciput Piliaput-llu: Our Stories & the Things We Made
An interview-based interdisciplinary performance event directed and curated by lead teaching artist Ryan Conarro, bringing together over 100 participating community members from across southwest Alaska. Young people from 13 Alaska Native Yup’ik villages perform puppetry, digital stories, and traditional dance to tell their own “new traditional” stories. After a year of study of traditional form and purpose of Yup’ik stories, exploring puppetry and digital storytelling forms, and interviewing elders to archive traditional stories, Qanemciput Piliaput-llu artists create stories that range across experimental, hybrid forms and content.
Yup’ik culture-bearer & teaching artist: Nita Rearden (Yup’ik) | Projections & digital stories: Katie Basile | Music and Yup’ik dance: Jack Dalton (Yup’ik) | Scenic design: Sarah Conarro & Shelley Toon Lindbergh | Producer: Julie McWilliams
Commissioned by the Lower Kuskokwim School District Pilinguat Project. Presented at the Bethel Cultural Center, Bethel, Alaska, 2012.
